Alligators are not endangered in Texas. In looking at the resource concerns, we are not that concerned about them outside the core counties where they are a daily part of life. Alligators in the marginal counties take an extraordinary amount of time and expense for the department. |
Because alligator numbers in those counties is assumed to be extremely low, there is not going to be many to hunt in a short time. |
What the department is attempting to do is let hunters take those in periphery counties. They don't have many, especially on private lands. Where they may be a nuisance and in the past might have 'disappeared,' this may provide a way for them to be taken under legal means and legal ways. |